Who says socks are boring?

ABOUT

Gelal Socks is a privately owned company, established in 1966, presently managed by the third generation of its founders.

Proven to globally lead the creation and development of all types of socks, Gelal demonstrates exemplary flexibility, producing a wide range of socks from technical or end-use purpose-created socks with specific functions and properties, to exciting lifestyle socks, even basic socks for men, ladies and children!

Establishment of own liaison office in U.S. to support sales

Substantial investment to increase the manufacturing capacity especially on football socks

2009

Further focus on consolidation of the Client Base

2012

Start of new purpose-built manufacturing premises at Cankiri (near Ankara)
Certified at GOLD level according to the United States Green Buildings Council
(USGBC) Leadership in Energy & Environmental Design (LEED) “Green” Standard

Celebrated 50 years of passion and innovation …

Construction of new, owned, purpose-built manufacturing premises, at Cankiri,
operating under a self-invented disruptive workflow process with spectacular
efficiency result

Gelal has registered 3 applications pending PATENT:

• Two applications for novel material use, to achieve ultra-high grip properties in different types of socks (without increasing the product cost).
• One application for a novel workflow process that drastically reduces: the consumption of natural resources, energy, product cycle time, costs and CO₂ emissions.

Gelal in numbers

Manufacturing space in m2

50,000

Employees

1,000

Knitting machines

1,000

Capacity (mil. pairs)

50

Capacity 2024 (mil. pairs)

50

Sock pairs manufactured until now:

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Added Values

Shaping the future of socks

FOCUS ON PRODUCT

When the world-class know-how of Gelal is combined with the Global power of its Clients, extraordinary things can happen…! Gelal is coming together with its Clients to test the boundaries of technology and make quantum leaps in what socks will look and be like in the future.

THE ETHICAL PRINCIPLES OF GELAL

The primary responsibility of Gelal is towards its Customers and its Business Partners, to meet their needs, their expectations and help them materialise their strategies and visions.Everybody at Gelal, staff, managers, directors and owners, constantly strive to increase efficiencies and sustain reasonable and at all times competitive price-points, for the Clients’ benefit.

Certifications

We believe in continuous improvement and we are determined to be competitive by applying controlling and quality systems. For this reason, Gelal is participating in a number of Compliance Platforms to keep up and improve our sustainability and our principles.

All the effort and persistence for continuous improvement has been rewarded with a number of certifications, among them the most important are the following: